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I personally find those "helpful" things to be truly, well, helpful. For example the input validation, anti-forgery token validation, simple cache control, etc.

Again, not saying you can't do these things in node. The two technologies can easily accomplish the same goal. But if your primary concern is avoiding JS, why would you choose a technology that is built entirely upon it?

Node.cs might make more sense, I agree. I have a feeling the existing ecosystem might bring its own problems with the author's approach, because your C# code may have trouble integrating with those existing libraries, if the underlying generated code does not behave as the Javascript library expects.
mjwalshe, you've been [dead] for 85 days.
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Their r&d expense quintupled last year. They went from 100 employees to 3k employees within a short time. Maybe they had to do this, maybe it was hubris. Zynga's administrative expense also sharply increased leading to strong losses.
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can you elaborate on the quirks around returning JSON with asp.net MVC? its a pretty common usecase.
Thanks. You just saved me a lot of time.

BTW: I would pay a small subscription fee to have podcasts (and audiobooks) summarized like you just did.
To me, Kickstarter is just one example (or execution) of pre-commerce. I think there was a post on techcrunch recently about this too: Kickstarter is just scratching the surface. Vertical integration is the next step (think Quirky.com) that more startups will/should try.
That's why it's an intelligent move by Starbucks to let baristas own stock, it creates raised expectations and makes them literally invested in the company's success.
If by insider you mean "someone cursorily involved in the Maemo community", yeah. Most of those changes and decisions were mentioned in (admittedly niche) public forums, thanks to the pseudo-opensource development model they adopted throughout. (I do agree many pics are new though.)

Indeed, the continuous flow of half-assed pseudo-announces and cancellations were one of the causes I lost interest in the whole thing: at various points after the N900 was released (late), it was clear that Nokia did not have a real Maemo/Meego roadmap for the next 6 months, let alone 5 years.

I went to "developer engagement" events and their evangelists were pushing Qt for Symbian, with Maemo/Meego being a footnote. In a very European way, one could see how company grassroots weren't really behind the official corporate line that "our future is Meego", and were doing their own thing instead.

UI libs would change every three months; I wanted to work with Python, so every time I had to wait for official bindings to be updated, and by the time they were usable and somewhat documented, when bugs were discussed somebody would drop by and say "oh, are you still doing that? The next phone will likely use <something different> instead, so your app probably won't work there". It was almost insulting when they offered us phones for 'development' activities and at the same time implied these would never see mass release and even frameworks couldn't be used as a reference for future releases. It was like Microsoft had tried to sell you a PC with Windows 3.1 for "development purposes" while preparing to release Windows XP.

Their Maemo evangelists were more like apologists, forced to blatantly spin "strategic moves" that made no sense. Precious time was lost squabbling about rules for "community engagement", when developers were hungry for working code and reliable docs. Compared to how Apple, MS and google foster their 3rd-party ecosystem, the Maemo world was strictly amateur-hour.

If I sound bitter, it's because I really "wanted to believe" (Python/Qt development on a fast-selling high-quality phone? OMG!) and felt quite let down at the time.
It's especially annoying to me, as I typically hold the book in my left hand. Now I have to either swipe right to left, or reach my thumb across the (invisible) previous-page touch area to hit the next-page area, or hold it with my right hand. Changing pages with my Kindle Keyboard was much more automatic, and I miss it. I wouldn't go back, though, the lighting and everything else makes it worthwhile.
Mint did go 'all the way down to debian' - there is a Linux Mint Debian Edition.
Currently, reusing code on client and server is far from the first selling point. Companies like Meteor and Groupon are pushing in that direction quite heavily, but for mere mortals it's still limited to reusing a few core libraries like underscore, async or templating.

Reusing experience and knowledge, and reducing the cost of context switching, those are very clear and positive advantages.

On the topic of sharing code, these should be interesting: the 'pipe dream' ( http://keithnorm.com/spainjs-pipedream/ ) and the 'holy grail' ( http://thatconf.chrisjpowers.com/ ).
Wall street assigns a lot of value to management. And with reason - it is the management that has turned over companies such as IBM and GE over the years. The departure of basically the whole upper management of the company is the most ominous sign in this story.
I think the reason you've not seen anything typeset that way before is because it's ridiculous to do it that way! You end up with an awful mix of fully justified and ragged-right... to my eye this makes me expect new paragraphs where there are none, for example.

It's such a shame that Amazon just doesn't seem to care about good typesetting practice. It's maybe just not something Amazon views as a "barrier to sale", but as Gruber says, the Kindle only has to do one thing well, so why shouldn't it do it fantastically well?
From http://thunderboltlabs.com/hire: "Development is $277 an hour per developer. Technical work is done in pairs."

Ouch. It looks like they've got the skills and marketing figured out. I think there's a great lesson in there for all of us freelancers.
Nice work, i like the metro style.
Thanks for the feedback... never thought it would be taken as disrespectful!

Might change it, not in love with that photo.

But yes as another poster said, I have a history with internet+cooking.
Excited to be attending for the first time - I'm on @shhmooze - download the app and say hi!
I really do appreciate the critique and the compliment.

A few months ago I've been really searching high and low for a simple library to recreate those buttons Microsoft uses on their websites. I do agree, it really doesn't look like buttons when you take away the text. Well anyway, I decided to build one for my own. Just shared this v1.1 release to everyone here at hn. Just maybe, just maybe, someone out there also needs a simple button/form library for such a specific need.

The release kind of addresses some issues, because some people keep contacting me at twitter or fb asking me "how-to's", so hopefully most of their 'needs' are met :) Really tried to make the documentation a little eye friendly for everyone.

Thanks again man!
I think these look great! good job, I don't think you will have many people not knowing a button is a button, if you added a 2px raduis on them you would look the same as gmail buttons and don't tell me people don't know they are buttons too?
How long is the conmute time in that setup?
Even though it's not as pleasant as print typography, it's still worth it. I totally agree that it can be better, but for me it's already outclassing the physical book experience.
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Oh god, another infinitely scrolling list. Why does anyone think that this is a good idea?!
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Wow this is pretty great! Never knew about this and might play with it some. Thanks!
Won't be able to make this, but thanks for announcing angel hack - just bought my tickets!
A week or two ago we had a text from 70's about diamonds, AFAIR. :).
I am using Crunchbang, which is based on Debian stable. It is trivial to download and install either Firefox or Chrome from the internet, and they automatically update themselves (FF since v12; the betas have had auto-update for longer).

For a more general solution you could look into apt-pinning, but there are some downsides depending on which way you go about it.
I thought that (media shifting) along with time shifting was already decided to be fair use.
Well, that certainly. But also more. If it's legal to do this on an industrial scale with books, why not with movies or music?

I think there's some complicated reasoning in the decision, and I'm curious what it will mean in the bigger picture.

Why can't I (or a company) take any analog media and transform them to digital. I'm adding transformative functionality, after all. Digital search capabilities, for example.

Not for resale of the work, of course, but for my own vast database that I sell research access to.

And even if the work has already been translated to a digital format (DVD or CD for example), the decision seems to say there's still nothing wrong with me transferring from analog to digital. If there was, point 4 would be circular as the decision says.

So it seems like this says Google could go digitize a bunch of LPs, VHS tapes, and even celluloid film for similar projects. Google Film. Google Albums. Etc.

I don't really think this holds up, but I can't pin down why it wouldn't.

Bonus thought- what if I took software and made it run on a new platform. Is that also fair use under this decision? Wouldn't that also be transformative use?

Hmmm.
Is it necessary to register or could I just show up? Not sure if I'll still be in London is all!
Please, make the link to the examples more visible. If it hasn't been on HN, I wouldn't have taken the time to look for them (never saw the topbar) : I clearly don't want to download them if I cannot see them first. Also the gigantic banner on the frontpage is useless to me, I didn't read it, at all.

Other than that, I find the website, including the buttons, quite clean.
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On the wait-to-run-commands thing: I've been starting to familiarise myself with the redhat ecosystem and... it's crazy. Want to get yum to provide some installation info on a package on your system? Please wait while we check the servers for any updates...
Just show up, they certainly don't check that you have registered.
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Dropped you a line. I'll come and do a talk entitled: "That'll never work!" about some crazy ideas that I've had in the past (The Geek Atlas, the Alan Turing Apology and the Analytical Engine project) and lessons from having crazy ideas.
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Yeah, I found it off-putting and I wasn't as receptive to your message after that.

But then again, I did say I'm a special snowflake. It could very well be only me who is off-putting and has the problem.
The difference is that when people build on cutting edge tech that just about everyone agrees will be standard eventually they help push the advancement of that technology, when people built for IE only they used tech just about everyone agreed was horrible, caused vendor lock-in and was a huge security risk. I think if it works on Chrome, Firefox, IE 10, Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS and Android, we're pretty clear of vendor lock-in.
Why on Thursday? I know a lot of you guys are working on your own things or freelance but a lot of people have office hours and might need some time to move :(
Well, they probably are. They spent 6 months badmouthing the entire Maemo/Meego operation, heralding the Microsoft deal with much fanfare, and then it turned out the N9 was a peach after all, with a possibly better UI than the much-celebrated Windows Phone. If the N9 had sold too well, they would have looked like idiots.

Not that they look much different now...
About your second question, I like the following advice: "I would recommend lowercase, if you are not actually referring to the Nazi party, its members, or principles."

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73948/grammar-naz...
It's built on a platform of sand (Facebook), and it's trying to monetize in the completely wrong fashion, and it's trying to run the company like an AAA studio when all it does is sell freemium web games.
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Thanks for the response, Amber. This is definitely the best alternative to just saying "I need you to create a Stripe account, come back when you've done it."
> For online auctions to work you need a large buyer base so it can attract a large seller base.

And how do you propose companies should attain a large buyer base without spending large amounts of money? eBay is NOT forcing you to use their platform, much like google is not forcing you to use their search engine. Customer acquisition is EXPENSIVE.

> They worked hard initially and now they deserve to gouge people who are using their site?

I don't think I follow your logic? Software development and marketing don't just all of the sudden stop as soon as a company attains a substantial network effect. Should facebook stop developing now that it has a substantial network effect?

> Fees are high because eBay has no idea how to keep earning money except to gouge people.

How do you propose they protect their network effect then?

> I cannot prove either...Ask anyone (or I guess, just sellers would be more accurate) if they would use eBay if they had to. They would say, "Fuck No", so why do they use it? Because, Network Effect.

Classic case of Cognitive dissonance.[1] If I read between the lines all I hear is "complain complain complain", with no substantial evidence to back it up. If this is that big of an issue, you (or anyone for that matter) would see an opportunity and steal market share yourself. I'm sure you would find the costs of establishing and maintaining a network effect exponentially difficult.

[1]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Except the desktop version of the browser still has Flash. It's only the Metro, pardon me, Windows 8-style UI version that has no Flash.
I am working on www.inqzin.com, exactly the thing he opposed .
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noted, trying to get more feedback on that jumbo banner. i'll see if maybe a link to "getting started" on the bottom could lessen people getting "lost" as well.
Dave, I really like RSS. I signed up to play with early functionality for radio2 when you let folk do that, and I agree with everything you're saying about twitter.

Why aren't you trying to replace it with the very decentralized thing you wish for? The various tools you're creating are either clients for the existing social networks, or aggregators/combiners/distributors -- none of which make us (or you, actually) any less reliant on Twitter. The fact that you're as vulnerable to Twitter's whims -- you, who's enmeshed in this world and understands more about it than I'll ever hope to, and has created formats to allow us to work apart from silos -- means I have no chance.

Is there something I'm not getting?
But the iOS devices were something of a new market. Was there an established precedent for Flash on mobile at the time?

So banning plugins (including Flash) on a desktop OS browser seems like a significant new move.
I have no idea what the user stats are, only anecdotal evidence from friends.

But their aggressive monetization approach to their -ville games led everyone I know to stop playing them. The games weren't fun, so burnout came fast.

That said, a fair number of my friends still play Words With Friends and/or Scramble, though largely in their mobile app forms. I suspect these games do not monetize very well.
That's why my original title included the phrase "with Crowd-sourced Annotations". Alas.
There is already a node.js analogue that runs on .net and hosts .net https://github.com/jacksonh/manos

Hasn't been updated in a long time. Not sure why it isn't getting any love, maybe something better came along. Seems to me it should be more performant on equal hardware.
Hopefully, if the demand for more components rises :) thanks again for the compliment.
They do look like buttons when incorporated into a Metro-style design. The contrast with their surroundings, and the text, makes it clear.

Metro isn't about skeuomorphic design, you see.
I thought Google and the authors settled? What is this ruling for? Is this in another trial?
"Lockdown" is not the correct term.

1. Flash isn't prohibited on Windows RT devices. This is distinctly different from Apple's approach with iOS, and Google has removed Flash from Android. [1]

2. Existing Flash websites will run on Windows RT devices. Windows RT will ship with the desktop version of IE10. [2]

Microsoft has made explicit what we all know. There are some websites that use Flash appropriately and in a way which benefits the person browsing, and there are websites whose use of Flash makes the web suck.

Having browsed the web for two years with Flash disabled by default, I'd add that here are a lot of sites which just use Flash for the sake of using Flash. When I don't see it, I still get the content I was seeking.

[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/08/adobe-flash-on-an...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_on_ARM#Limitations
Yes, there are... in fact, the unity developers are working in better multi-display support
Here's place where experienced guys gather, thus I'm asking the quest. :)
The way I see it : no banner, a huge "CSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons", some examples, then a huge "See more" button (like your "Download ...") and a less visible "Download" button (or maybe at the top of each page, something like the GitHub's "Fork me"). All before the fold. Just my 2 cents though ;)
Interesting... do you have any experience with Kimsufi?
I agree that the idea of a cross-browser, cross-OS bytecode platform is really nice. Every time I hear of "X-to-javascript" compilers I cringe a bit.

But with flash the fatal problem is, and always was, that the only viable implementation of the interpreter is a proprietary and buggy blob, not even available for all platforms. Apart from that being a plugin also made it clunky, too much like a "java applet" (it never integrated into a page as well as javascript does).

If it had been based on an open specification (like HTML5 is now) then it could have been successful. Different browsers could have competed for the fastest and most secure JIT, like they do with javascript now. The end result would probably have been great. Alas...

Even non-technical people I hear complaining almost daily about what a piece of crapware the Adobe Flash plugin is, after it crashed for the zillionth time. Everyone wants flash to die, as the last sites that still require it either move to HTML5 or are replaced.
Lispers tend to be a clever bunch. I'm quite sure they can be very convincing.
True, but Unity is even better. The same regime might still apply though.
Depends on where you're going to or from. If you live near the Redwood City Caltrain and work in SoMa, it's 30-40 mins.
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I can't believe Javascrip is really that awful that anyone would rather go through all this trouble, rather than just write JS..

Maybe it has more to do with people being to reliant on IDE's, which he, kind of, admits to anyway..

I can't believe that any IDE is that great that anyone would rather go through all this trouble, rather than just use something else..
There was recently a big furor over Notch's statement that he refuses to let Microsoft certify his games for Win8. Many people felt he was being childish and throwing a tantrum, while others think he's a visionary and working to prevent MS from walling off Windows like the 360.

Personally, I think it's a fight worth fighting, since they really could go that route if they got enough buy-in on it. And I don't doubt they would, if they thought it was in their best interests. That's what corporations do.

Luckily, Linux has recently gotten a lot of support from indie developers via Kickstarter (and the players' demands for a Linux version) and it's starting to look more viable as a platform for commercial games. We can hope.
I am in a VERY low-tech, slightly rural area where the median income is somewhere north of $30k a year. In no way does that affect my pricing, and I charge more than most Bay Area consultants.

My method is pretty simple: understand the client's business, get to the root of why they're thinking they need Project X, and then only proposing solutions that have a high likelihood to return a positive investment (this sometimes means having hotly debated arguments with said clients.) In short, in no way do I position myself as "tell me what you want and I'll build it."

The end result has been positive growth and ROI for my clients, which makes my hourly rate immaterial if the product I deliver yields steep dividends.
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But affordances (such as bevelled buttons) are not the same as skeuomorphic design. Bevelling an area of the screen implies that something is pressable and hence aids the user. Covering iCal in a fake leather bitmap does not help the user. WP7/Metro seems to have taken a lot of tried and tested affordances away, but hasn't really replaced them with anything.
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System76 notebooks?
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I don't get the point you're making with the coffee - a cup of coffee (or even 3 cups) has never transformed my world the way some books have
Yes, my comment was concerning the top-down approach taken by browser vendors, and that web apps need to be empowered with low-level APIs such as TCP and POSIX. I don't think I said or TBL said that we need to ship native code to browsers to do this. We don't. We don't need another language. Javascript is fine. We do need better low-level APIs. We do need to get away from relying on browser vendors to spec and implement everything correctly, because with such a massive surface like they're targeting they won't. We do need to push this responsibility out to the edges. We need to drastically reduce the standard API and move the functionality from high level (as in IndexedDB) to low level (as in POSIX). We need a strong powerful stable small core and OSS must do the rest. That's the general idea. The finer details can be nitpicked and that won't invalidate the general idea. Browser vendors are simply doing way too much.